Zbrush Normals and Max Unwrap? Plz Help.

RedLemonsRR

I'm an animation student and decided to use zbrush for the normal mapping of my low poly characters for use in my final project. The normal maps worked great its just now I realize that I cannot unwrap the model to create textures as it screws up the normal's coords.

Would anyone know of a way to get around this?

Eric Chadwick

Use the same coords for both.

MoP

Or you could duplicate the mesh, unwrap it as you want to, and bake the normals from the old one into the new layout using Render To Texture.

rooster

uv map the low poly and re-render the normal map to the correct uvs
edit: doh spent too long with this thread in a tab

RedLemonsRR

Thanks for your help guys, I think i'll be alright now.

RedLemonsRR

I cannot figure out how to do this! HAHAHAH....

RedLemonsRR

There must be some small, minute detail i'm overlooking. I unwrap the mesh and bake the coords before sculpting in zbrush and it doesn't work still...at least i'm learning zbrush in through all this struggle.

Neo_God

Hey there John!

Yeah, I would say go for using the render to texture in Max, it's a pain to do it in Zbrush due to it's alien interface, At least it is to me.

rooster

hey man, you shouldnt have to re-sculpt anything- zbrush can import a seperate mesh to use as low poly for normal maps, just take your low poly, uv it and point zmapper to it to bake to